[brianofnazareth]

A couple of years ago, I bought some bulk Malaysian 7.65 NATO rounds. Never again will I do that again. I think that it was probably designed for use with an M60. But in my rifle, it did not perform well. The accuracy was mediocre at best.

 

[XXIV Corps]

A couple of years ago, I bought some bulk Malaysian 7.65 NATO rounds. The accuracy was mediocre at best.

I have had some better results with Malaysian military surplus ammunitions.

Malaysia, '82, [ MAL ], Berdan, three star crimp with dark red primer sealant. MAL 7.62 4-82
Malaysia, '83, [ MAL ], Berdan, three star crimp with dark red primer sealant. MAL 7.62 5-83
Malaysia, '84, [ MAL ], Berdan, three star crimp with dark red primer sealant. MAL 7.62 2-84
Malaysia, '85, [ MAL ], Berdan, three star crimp with dark red primer sealant. MAL 7.62 5-85

1, M852 Lake City from 1991. Top score of 200-20X, on a SR-1 NRA standard 100 yard target, 1-20 round mag only with my NM M1A.
2, Argentine FLB, surplus from 1983, 200-16X.
3, M118LR Lake City from 2003, 200-13X.
4, German DAG, surplus from 1993, 200-12X.
5, M118SB Lake City from 1983, 200-10X.
6, M852 Lake City from 1988, 200-10X.
7, Radway Green surplus from 1990, 200-10X.
8, Greek surplus from 1980, 200-10X.
9. Santa Barbara surplus from 1968, 200-8X.
10, Australian MF surplus from 1966, 200-6X.
11, M118SB Lake City from 1985, a 199-12X.
12, Nigerian from 1970, 199-10X.
13, Portuguese m/963 surplus from 1979, a 199-10X.
14, Radway Green surplus from 1985, 198-12X.
15, Malaysian surplus from 1985, 198-11X. <<<<<
16, Belgium surplus from 1977, 198-10X.
17, Bosnian surplus from 2003, 198-10X.
18, Radway Green surplus from 1995, 198-9X
19, Austria surplus from 1980, 198-8X.
20, South African surplus from 1980, 198-6X.
21, Santa Barbara surplus from 1980, 197-14X.
22, Argentine surplus from 1983, 197-8X.
23, German DAG, surplus from 1976, 197-8X.
24, German MEN, surplus from 1969, 197-6X.
25, Singapore surplus from 1986, 196-11X.
26, Israeli surplus from 1974, 196-10X.
27, Australian ADI surplus from 1988, 196-8X.
28, Bosnian M118 surplus from 2003, 196-8X.
29, Serbia surplus from 2002, 196-6X.
30, Malaysian surplus from 1982, 195-6X. <<<<<
31, Malaysian surplus from 1983, 194-9X. <<<<<
32, Lithuanian surplus from 2003, 194-6X.
33, Serbia surplus from 1989, 194-2X.
34, Venezuelan surplus from 1989, 194-2X.
35, Denmark, surplus from 1993, 193-2X.
36, Canadian, surplus from 1970, 192-8X.
37, Chilean, surplus from 1976, 191-4X.
38, Indonesian surplus from 1985, 190-6X
39, Portuguese m/963 surplus from 1978, 190-4X.
40, Austria surplus from 1978, 190-3X.
41, South African surplus from 1981, 189-1X.
42, Pakistan surplus from 1979. Score of 188-4X.

XXIV Corps

 

[bfoosh006]

Turkish ZQI 308 ammo... literally grouped like a decent shotgun pattern. All over the 18" target circle.

CBC 168gr "Sniper" Match ammo... lousy groups.

And Remington 22LR... WAY to many duds.


On the flip side, ammo that was fantastic... GGG 2003 147gr Ball ammo, grouped as well as FGMM 168gr out of all my 308/7.62x51 rifles.

 

[jbdesigns]

Agree^^^ with the turkish ZQ1 7.62x51

Bought 600-700 rounds when it was cheap in the stores. Seemed like a bargain. But, man does it suck accuracy wise. Functions fine but 5-6” groups at 100yds.
Brass is good for reloading. I have new shooters on my rifle use it up as they normally aren’t good enough shooters to know the ammo sucks as their noobs.


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[russmerle]

Steel cases 5.56/.223... it just doesn’t cycle well in ARs. At least with my luck. I’m not talking about the polymer coated stuff, I mean the matte finished wolf stuff. And its just because of the AR issues. I’ve had luck with 45acp in glocks but that’s about it.

 

[Danus ex]

Winchester and Federal Cartridge Company all in white boxes ammunition was always below grade third world military surplus ammunition.

A thousand times this.

Also, Freedom Munitions .308 has been utter garbage.

 

[Bcrichct]

I haven’t fired it myself but while collecting 300 blk out cases from the range I’ve found the Xtreme headstamp 300blk out rounds are super hot blowing out primers …they left live rounds on the ground so I pulled the projectiles & found that the powder is somehow stuck /clustered together meaning I have to break it up to pour it out . This is from multiple trips & not just 1 lot , I wouldn’t trust that ammo

 

[E pluribus unum]

Possibly a storage issue rather than manufacture QC issue?

 

[Bcrichct]

I guess it’s possible but I would guess unlikely That multiple shooters all would have to have the same bad storing habits 🤷🏽‍♂️

 

[CHARLIED308]

A couple of years ago, I bought some bulk Malaysian 7.65 NATO rounds. Never again will I do that again. I think that it was probably designed for use with an M60. But in my rifle, it did not perform well. The accuracy was mediocre at best.

Malaysian FMJ was surprisingly accurate at 300 yards when fired out of my RRA LAR-8.

 

[DDAero]

Russian 22LR from the early1990's was the worst. Steel case, greasy, most foul stuff I ever came across. I gave it to a buddy. He still has it.

 

[GW104]

Never have or ever will use steel case anything. Only factory ammunition I ever buy is 22lr.

 

[GS455]

Not much experience wi new production ammo other than lousy groups in some of the low end 54r Russian (Tula, etc). I've stocked up mostly milsurp over the years.

.30c Aguila - Runs fine but filthy dirty. Have lots. Last in line for use.

8mm Turk surp - brittle brass, loose necks, bolt gun only. HOT !!!

8mm 1950s Yugo surp - hard primers sometimes needing 2nd strike. Popped primers twice in my M76. Bolt gun only.

54r Czech Green Box - supposedly some of the best and coveted (finally found some) milsurp 54r. Decent groups but sticky as hell trying to extract outta my PU Sniper.

54r Albania surp - many split cases after puffs in the face. Read it was pretty dangerous after I burned through it all.

 

[RichFool]

This isn't exactly the same, but...

Ammo that no one will ever fire (let alone buy) is anything I have handloaded. If someone fired something I'd reloaded and wound up with a blown up rifle or an injury, I would not be able to forgive myself. Even if turned out that the cause was a defective rifle/pistol, I would still feel like crap about it.

 

[Phil14]

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100 yards out of a Colt 14.5" SOCOM barrel.

I don't seem to have issues with it for bulk ammo. Been buying it forever.

That’s not fair! I swapped my Colt M4 marked le6920’s barrel with a 14.5 Socom heavy too and it shoots everything good! It’s like a cheat code barrel!

 

[Phil14]

ZQI, literally anything ZQI…

 

[GS455]

Yea the ZQI in my 7.62nato milsurps sucked

 

[Jeremy21]

Winchester white box
Herters brand

 

[PatriotWithValor]

Red Army 7.62mm X 51mm steel case.

 

[brianofnazareth]

The worst that I ever bought was some 7.62mm NATO surplus from Thailand. It was brass case, but at least a third of it caused a feed jam. The accuracy was, if you'll pardon the pun, hit-or-miss. I'm just glad that I only bought 100 rounds.